I’ve got to hurry and post this before I read a review of this show with the same title of this post. Before I plagiarize it.

Fall TV is ramping up quickly and has more than the usual complement of good shows (I usually count on maybe two a year.)

CW’s entry into the ‘Best Show of the Season’ contest is a little fantasy entitled ’Reaper.’ The pilot episode is directed by Kevin Smith (warning, Kevin Smith’s blog is rather offensive) he of the Dogma, Clerks I & II and other assorted movies fame.  Who in the world is better qualified to make fun of the Devil and Hell than Kevin Smith? Nobody!

This show is very, very funny. Snort beverages out your nostrils type funny.

Sam is a 20 year old slacker. A community college drop-out who excels at exactly nothing. He and his best friend Bert “Sock” Wysocki work (as it were) at the local Work Bench, a Home Depot type hardware store where Sam and Bert are pretty much the worst employees.

Sam has a crush on his extra cute co-worker Andi, though he can’t quite ask her out even though she’s obviously interested.

Never fear though, Sam has a secret (though he doesn’t know it yet) that’s cool enough to win the girl as long as she doesn’t know the details: Sam’s parents sold his soul to the devil, and on Sam’s 21st birthday the devil is here to collect.

The devil (brilliantly played by Ray Wise) wants Sam to help him out by being Hell’s bounty hunter “...not forever, you’re done when you die, right!” All Sam has to do is capture souls that have escaped from hell and in return the devil won’t, well, “take you’re mother.”

Not entirely perfect (it bogs down a bit when it’s not trying to be funny) but there’s more than enough to like in this twisted comedy.

Given that the show is on the CW, this might be a good time to get involved because I’d be willing to bet it’s going to be around for awhile and that’s a very good thing.